Anyway, the whole notion of a land-locked region with a scant five million people in it becoming a sovereign nation is bonkers. Smith should never have played footsie with economic lightweights or ...

Buying a house is a form of forced savings by paying the mortgage every month and maybe in 25 – 30 years you might actually ...

The wire was an inch thick and caused nothing but problems.

But it isn’t. This is dog-whistle politics, classically blaming outsiders, or ‘them’ for wrongs being committed against ...

In other words, fellow little beavers, there is no national unity crisis in Canada. They can huff. They can puff. And you ...

There are 8.4 million people in Canada who are now 65 or older. That’s 20% of the population. Of those, 7.5 million old snorts are collecting OAS monthly payments. That includes just over a hundred ...

Capital markets are enormously complex yet surprisingly simple. They’ll always tilt, on a risk-adjusted basis, in the direction where there’s the greatest opportunity to make money. This is one reason ...

However, since the main motivation of most Canadians is to get up in the morning and figure out how to screw the banks, rates matter. People want to win, and lenders to lose. So they’re willing to ...

Days ago the PM, the leader of the BC government and various poohbahs announced a plan to inject five billion into the local property market, where few can afford to buy. When it comes to housing its ...

Like most folks, Jason is pensionless. “Shoulda been a garbage truck operator,” he says. “At least then I’d have a DB payment coming in monthly.” Alas, he went into insurance. Worked at various ...